ScatterbrainTurkey, France, genocide"The President of the Republic considers that [genocide] denial is intolerable and must therefore be punished. He has asked the government to prepare a new draft taking into account the decision of the Constitutional Council."リンク2012/02/29

ScatterbrainUSSR, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, genocide, CommunismWe now know, after 20 years of discussion of Soviet documents, that in 1932 Stalin knowingly transformed the collectivization famine in Ukraine into a deliberate campaign of politically motivated starvation. Stalin presented the crop failure as a sign of Ukrainian national resistance, requiring firmリンク2010/11/18

ScatterbrainSpain, civil war, genocide, ArgentineIf amnesty laws prevent Spanish courts investigating the cases cited by Servini, which date from 1936 until the dictator's death in 1975, then she might declare her own court competent to investigate and try crimes allegedly committed by Franco's henchmen.リンク2010/10/27

ScatterbrainHolocaust, USSR, WW II, Nazi Germany, Book Review, genocidereluctance of intellectuals on the left to condemn communism; the fact that Stalin was allied with Roosevelt and Churchill; the existence of German historians who tried to downplay the significance of the Holocaust by comparing it to Soviet crimes; all of that meant that, until recently, it was poliリンク2010/10/22

ScatterbrainUSSR, Nazi Germany, Jews, POW, WW II, genocide, Holocaust, BookSome 3.1 million Soviet prisoners perished in German captivity: about 500,000 were shot; the remaining 2.6 million died of starvation and hunger-related disease. More Soviet prisoners died in German camps on a given day in autumn 1941 than American and British prisoners did during the entire war.リンク2010/10/22

ScatterbrainEurope, Book Review, WW II, USSR, Nazi Germany, genocideSnyder insists that the colossal atrocities in his "bloodlands" have to be set inside a single historical frame. To look at them separately – for instance, to see Hitler's crimes as "so great as to stand outside history", or Stalin's as a monstrous device to achieve modernisation – is to let theリンク2010/10/09